By now you've recovered from Christmas festivities (I hope!) and haven't
yet started your New Year's celebrations (again, I hope!), so this may
be a good time to consider a small enhancement to the list: monthly
themes.

Other lists have themes to stimulate conversation on the list.
Obviously, we don't need that, as we natter away without any
provocation -- the Lanky genes? <vbg> -- but it might be nice to
get away a little bit from what sometimes seems an endless series of
lookup requests and have an interesting, thought-provoking theme to
discuss each month.

If we decide to have themes, they would have to be focused on Lancashire
and participation would be purely voluntary. "Regular" messages --
lookup requests, queries, answers, etc. -- would continue on the list
as usual.

Please write to me *privately* at ) and let
me know whether or not you'd like to have monthly themes. If you're
voting "yes," please include in your message any themes you'd like to
suggest using.